PHP keeps escaping my form's input (adding \ behind my ')

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Published on 2010-05-23T12:53:25Z Indexed on 2010/05/23 13:01 UTC
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So basically when I type something with an apostrophe, such as John's bike it will echo John\'s bike. The code below:

<?php
$searchname = $_POST["name"] ;
echo "$searchname";

My form uses the POST method. Is there any way to stop this?

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